Autometer Speedometer
 

Mechanical or electric? I am going to install Topline disk breaks so I really don't know which way to go.

From what I understand, Autometer's speedo's are made to fit up against the american trannies (Ford, Chevy), so your biggest problem is the speedo's accuracy. I have a mechanical Ultra-lite in my 1302, with Topline's disk brakes, and 17in rims. The speedo runs about 10mph slower than the car's actual speed. I asked the local race shop about the electric, but they said the senders are made to bolt onto an American car Transmission, so there's not really a way to fit it right up to your left brake. I've been trying to figure out this problem for almost a year now (haven't been driving the car much, but when I do I have no speedo). The best I can figure, since I already have the mech-drive speedometer, is take the speedometer to a shop that can pull the guage apart and replace the drive gear with a smaller one, to make the needle turn up faster.

Otherwise, it looks friggin' awesome in the super...



DAVID MANN

You have the same set up I am building. I am surprised that there is no way to calibrate the speedo. Hmmm. Oh well, all my other gauges are Autometer and the stock speedo won't look right to me.

do the speedo's fit without any modification to the dash?

I used the 5 inch tach and 3 5/8 (right size? Can't remember...) speedo.

The tach only recquired the speedo hole to be spread out a little bit (cut the lip from inside the dash and then bend outward). As for the speedo, I was originally using one of those Empi dash guage panels, but the panel needed to be shaved a bit in the biggest hole. After that, there wasn't enough room for the 2 5/16 guages (the lips around these autometer guage-faces are pretty big), so I fabbed my own panels. I'll try to post some pics of my setup soon., But it'll be out of the car, since I'm still finishing the paint work...



DAVID MANN

Hi

Im not sure if I have posted this link before but SPA design in the UK make combined tacho & speedo, it would help with space on a crowed dash.


Steve C

click here http://www.spa-uk.co.uk/design/tachometers.htm

The tach- and speedometer combination as well as the others listed on that page are interesting option(s). I didn't see the size listed, however, to determine if this would be a good 1302 or 1303 gauge, or both.

I assume for a street application one would opt for the 9k RPM tachometer as there is little difference for the needle on the 15k for the 0-7k range ... or am I revealing my ignorance here?

-René

Mechanical speedos can be made to work by installing a gear reduction box in the cable. Any decent speedometer shop can figure out the ratios needed to get it to read correctly. The gear boxes are not too expensive.
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